com.bigdata.gom.gpo

Interface IGenericSkin

All Known Subinterfaces:

IGPO

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicSkin, GPO, OWLClassSkin, OWLOntologySkin, OWLPropertySkin

public interface IGenericSkin

A generic skin is a set of behaviors, typically disclosed by one or more application interfaces, that can be layered over a generic object. The purpose of a generic skin is to allow the application to view and interact with a generic object in terms of its own interfaces. Normally the property access methods of the application interface are re-written in terms of generic properties. In addition, various methods that generate Iterators and the like are typically re-written in terms of link sets.

This interface SHOULD be implemented so that the backing IGPO implementation object may be recovered. Only a single method, asGeneric() is required by this interface in order to minimize the possibity of interface collisions when using a generic object model to implement other interfaces, e.g., the W3C DOM or some such.

Note: This interface is extended by IGPO. This makes it easy to write common code for IGPOs and IGenericSkins.

See Also:

GenericSkinRegistry

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IGPO	asGeneric() This method returns the eventual delegate that implements the IGPO interface and is primarily used to peel off a skin and gain access to implementation specific methods on the IGPO implementation object.

Method Detail

asGeneric

IGPO asGeneric()

This method returns the eventual delegate that implements the IGPO interface and is primarily used to peel off a skin and gain access to implementation specific methods on the IGPO implementation object. When invoked on an object that directly implements the IGPO behavior (vs delegating the interface to an implementation object), then that object is returned. The return value is never null.